The desert locust (DL1) situation remained calm in February in winter breeding areas due to unfavorable ecological conditions. Only a few scattered solitary adults and/or hoppers were reported in northern Mauritania, southwest Libya and along the Red Sea coasts in Sudan and Saudi Arabia. A similar situation may exist in northern Niger and Mali where surveys were undermined by the ongoing security situation. No locusts were reported in other outbreak regions during this time (CNLA/Mauritania, DDLC/Libya, DPPQS/India, FAO-DLIS, PPD/Ethiopia, and PPD/Sudan).

Caritas is launching emergency appeals to respond to the needs of people in Ugandaand Ghana.

In Uganda, flooding has affected 300,000 people and with no let up in the heavy rains, that figure is expected to